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would your life change if you discovered, beyond
belief, that you are far more than your physical
body - that death will not end your existence?

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Welcome to SoulMentors, an
emerging, inclusive and agenda-free approach to helping
persons explore the deeper issues of life in a way that allows
them to find meaningful and fulfilling answers for
themselves. This new site is the beachhead for a much more
comprehensive web site, to be posted in the near future. This
approach has been put together over my lifetime career in the
counseling profession, based on these many years of personal
and professional experiences exploring the theme of human
spiritual development.

Persons of all religious persuasions, and
no religious persuasion are welcome here. Here, is an
opportunity to explore the possibility of a spiritual reality
based upon your own unfolding experience – without the
pressures of any persuasion at all.

SoulMentors is a way of thinking and
being; it is not about joining anything. Just by reading here,
you are participating; just by “trying on” or “being open to
consider” these ideas, you a part of it. Indeed, since
SoulMentors is an organized approach for defining a process of
emerging consciousness around the world in this era, you may
discover that you have a soulmentor approach to life even
before visiting this site!

A fathomless debt of gratitude is offered
to all of my mentors and teachers, known and unknown, on all
levels, seen and unseen, who have been the wind in my sails
and the navigators of the course that is becoming SoulMentors.
May all of us who are inspired to follow a soulmentors course
in receiving and offering support find our highest meaning and
purpose in the great spiritual adventure of life.

A Very Brief Overview

While this interim site lays down the
basic groundwork for the SoulMentors model, it has three
purposes:

1)SoulMentors begins a process of structuring an
online course that will help persons seeking to explore
their spiritual needs, online, through this approach. The
course will be offered free of charge online and will include
peer and professional (helping professions, including clergy)
“certification” in the SoulMentors approach – this
certification indicating a claim to observance of the
principles of the SoulMentors approach over traditional
approaches.

2)SoulMentors is the home of my counseling/mentorship
practice – offering both local, regional and online
support employing the SoulMentors approach for those who seek
help, as well as consultation on applications of the
SoulMentors approach. Because I am semi-retired, exploring
some cutting-edge counseling methods, and focusing upon my
writing and the development of this model, non-clinical
SoulMentorship counseling services to individuals is offered
on a donation basis, with no persons being turned away for
financial reasons. Details are yet to be worked out, but
provisional information on the counseling process is available
on my present long-standing site:
www.transitions-counseling.com .

3)Academic and Research Development: SoulMentors
begins a process of structuring a spiritual helping model that
will help us recognize, define and meet universal human
spiritual development needs reflected by an emerging world
consciousness that spirituality is an intrinsic, verifiable,
human developmental process of paramount importance to our
existence. It is equal to and coextensive with helping models
for human psychological development. This process can include,
exist independently of, or even transcend, doctrines and
practices of religious traditions. Finally, this process
recognizes and accepts all aspects of a possible human
spiritual development continuum, from self-reported atheists
and agnostics, through believers and spiritual experiencers,
with no value judgment, offering support to all. Feedback and
dialogue is invited from all others interested in exploring
the SoulMentors approach.

SoulMentors - An Emerging Way of Exploring the
Possibilities of a Spiritual, or Multidimensional Reality

I invite you to ask yourself this
question: Is my religious, spiritual, or philosophical path
in life giving me enough of what I need to satisfy me with
respect to my ultimate questions about the deeper meanings of
life? How about this one: Is there any way I can explore
these questions without somebody trying to hard-sell me on a
particular belief system? Or, Isn’t there a way I can look
for answers without having to join some group and become a
believer – before I get to ask the questions, let alone get
the answers? (continued . . .)

Some Thoughts you are invited to consider . . .

Nothing blinds us to the truth more than fear. Does fear
influence your spiritual life? From where does your fear
originate? Are your religious beliefs based on fear, guilt or
shame?

How we answer our ultimate questions determines
how we live our whole lives. Do you feel safe to explore your
ultimate questions? Why, or why not? Have you
answered your ultimate questions to your satisfaction . . . or
did you accept the answers of others? What emotion was behind
your acceptance?

(For the God-fearing folk...) Would a
God of love, mercy and compassion truly use fear as coercion
to believe, or condemn such children who ask deeper
questions and hold out for answers that fulfill their
longings? Would we do this to our children? If
not, would we then have more grace and compassion than our
creator?

(For self-identified agnostics and
atheists...) Are your judgments about the possibility of a
spiritual/multidimensional reality conclusive - or are you
open to deeper exploration? What is behind your position
- emotions, logic, or both? Would the idea of exploring
for possibilities outside the framework of religion have any
appeal for you?

(For victims of spiritual abuse,
religious burn-outs and all the rest of us...) What if our not
being willing to explore our spirituality will leave us always
feeling somehow unfilled . . . like something is always
missing or incomplete in us? What if our spiritual
journey has the potential for fulfilling all of our yearnings
and becoming our greatest adventure in life . . . and we never
got past the gate? What can we find in ourselves that stands
in our way of becoming?

This temporary page is a
beginning . . .

Imagine if you came to visit a place of
deeper learning and discovered partial displays, unpacked
boxes and construction work everywhere. Imagine that
those you meet in that setting explain that they are so
excited to be sharing their discoveries that enough is
available to form an initial presentation - because there is a
world of need for even that right now. They give you a brief
tour of the place, invite your much-valued feedback on this
work-in-progress and heartily invite you to return, as much as
your interests and needs apply. May this be your experience
here on the SoulMentors site.